Backup - Automatic Destination Folder creation
I came across this software because my sister asked me to source for a backup solution that does this.
http://www.backup-premium.com/
Lets say you have a list of directory
\\Nas\Current-Work\Tom
\\Nas\Current-Work\Dick
\\Nas\Current-Work\Harry
Now you want to backup these directories on a periodic basis. However, you also want a snapshot in time of what you did per month. Most file backup solutions will simply backup the above directories and folders and dump them into a path and update them accordingly. A single file with incrementals (maybe) or just sync directories.
What my sister wanted was the set of folders backuped to a directory split by month.
So if this month is May the the backup directory could be
\\Nas\Backup\2009-May\Tom
\\Nas\Backup\2009-May\Dick
\\Nas\Backup\2009-May\Harry
Come June then the a new set of directory would now contain
\\Nas\Backup\2009-May\Tom
\\Nas\Backup\2009-May\Dick
\\Nas\Backup\2009-May\Harry
\\Nas\Backup\2009-June\Tom
\\Nas\Backup\2009-June\Dick
\\Nas\Backup\2009-June\Harry
and so on.
Backup Premium does exactly that. You can actually specify the directory to split the backup into.
<Year> or
<Year>-<Month> or
<Year>-<Month>-<Day> or
<Year>-<Month>-<Day>-<Hour> and so on.
Of course it provides other interesting things like ftp, sftp, ftp-ssl. Backup encryption, password protection and all these common backup features found in most other backup software.
I think some types of companies can benefit from this. Like accounting / book keeping, graphic design, architectural and much more. Of course these backups would take space, you could turn on the Zip compression option to save a little space. Or plan a little more carefully what you really need many copies of and what you need little of.
The only issue I have with this software, is that you can only create one backup schedule. Thats a little of a pain if you want to have different backup folders at different schedules.
But all in all and excellant software for their unique features.
